Cloud 109

I can vividly recall the first time I encountered the work of the late, great Wallace Wood at his full-on, no holds barred, sci-fi driven best. It was within the pages of an almost impossible to...

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Here are a few more images of Boffin Boy and his pink and spiky sidekick Wu Pee. One of the benefits of working with small publishers such as Ransom Publishing who produce the fabulous Boffin Boy...

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I first encountered the wonderfully weird world of Boffin Boy some eight years ago when I received a manuscript from Ransom Publishing about a delightfully nerdy and bespectacled geek called Boff...

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A week ago I posted that advance copies of the eagerly awaited 'Frank Bellamy's Heros the Spartan' had arrived at Book Palace Books HQ. Having shared the photos of the book's covers that we recei...

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I am delighted  to say that we have just received  these mouth watering photos of the long awaited Heros, direct from our printer in far away China:   They are sending ou...

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We have sensibly sat on our hands over the last few weeks before making any further announcements about the eagerly awaited Book Palace Books edition of 'Frank Bellamy's Heros the Spartan'. But I...

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We have now reached that very exciting moment with Book Palace Book's epic 'Heros The Spartan' project, when we finally have a first glimpse at the printed proofs of what the team have been worki...

http://cloud-109.blogspot.com/2013/06/heros-spartanproof-positive.html

Firstly, I must apologize for the overlong absence of a new posting on this dear old blog of mine. But work, work, work - much of which, in a somewhat ironic fashion, emanates from this blog. In...

http://cloud-109.blogspot.com/2013/01/of-heros-illustrators-and-sundry-other.html

I've got to the stage where it's no longer worth apologizing for the erratic nature of recent blog postings. Work, work, work... it is a constant imperative, but the good news is much of it is ai...

http://cloud-109.blogspot.com/2012/11/heros-galley-sails-closer.html

Having been fully occupied with helping launch our very first issue of ILLUSTRATORS, I thought it might be opportune, whilst gathering breath to show you a bit more of what is heading your way o...

http://cloud-109.blogspot.com/2012/09/upcoming-in-illustrators.html

That's right, having braved Typhoons, Somali Pirates, Giant Squid, Krakens and Moby Dick himself, the container vessel carrying several palettes worth of THE ART OF DENIS MCLOUGHLIN and ILLUSTRA...

http://cloud-109.blogspot.com/2012/08/theyre-here-as-in-illustrators-and-art.html

A little over a couple of years ago, I first made a posting about the incredible 'noir' tinged art of the late, great illustrator Denis McLoughlin. The response was such that I made a few more p...

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At the risk of repeating myself, I am posting a blog which I put up this morning over at  the Book Palace Blog concerning our forthcoming Heros the Spartan project. As many of you know, aside f...

http://cloud-109.blogspot.com/2012/07/all-this-and-heros-too.html

Once upon a time in a distant age Britain had an empire, generations of schoolchildren were educated in classes where maps of Britain and it's dominions were highlighted in red, with pink indica...

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Following on from yesterday's posting and thinking of the months and months of my life and several other good souls lives, Mark Terry of Facsimile Dust Jackets and author David Ashord to name but...

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As visitors to this blog are only too aware, your old Blogmeister has been conspicuous by his absence of late. Impervious to pangs of conscience, his keyboard has remained out of action at least...

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As in Matias Alonso. Having just received the latest list of Commando comics from the ever pro-active team, located in their sand bagged bunker in deepest Dundee, I am pleased to report that the...

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there lived a  storyteller who brought to life his fantastic tales with the aid of the world's greatest artists, writers and musicians. They all lived together in the storyteller's Magic Kingdom...

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As I mentioned on my previous posting, some of the work currently occupying my energies is involved with a team of games developers and as a consequence my games antenna is in a much more alert ...

http://cloud-109.blogspot.com/2012/03/down-in-dungeons-legend-of-grimrock.html

I am drowning in deadlines, too many to list but as is always the way with such affairs, it is sometimes good to momentarily climb off the hamster wheel and engage in an altogether different act...

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Here are some more samples of Anne and Janet Grahame Johnstone's delightful work, courtesy of David Slinn, who as well as being a mine of information on this period of UK illustration has a coll...

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The year was 1963 and in the small bookstore come stationer that was one of my favorite childhood haunts, there was a new book that immediately grabbed my attention. In those far away days when ...

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Every morning I wake up thinking I really need to make a new blog posting. Continuity of some sort needs to be maintained. However by the time I am sitting in my control center, trusty iMac gent...

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In 1976, a minor publishing event occurred when Pan books visionary editor David Larkin released a paperback edition of Kay Nielson's Illustrations for One Thousand and One Nights. For lovers an...

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The number of simply superb Spanish and Italian illustrators and painters, who refined their craft in the UK comics of the 1950s-70s is simply astonishing. In fact the phenomenon was part of the...

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